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June 2011
TNWDailyDose 30-06-2011
No more Amazon Associates program in California. The company has pulled it in response to a new online sales tax in the state. Myspace is sold. $35 million was the going price and now…Justin Timberlake is involved. The White House is going to hold its first Town Hall meeting via Twitter. Nokia has closed its US and UK online stores.
You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web.
UCL on SoundCloud Competition
UCL (University College London) recently started using SoundCloud to share some of the lectures and podcasts they’ve been recording. For example, you can listen to a lecture by Noam Chomsky or check out some news from the University.
Today, UCL is inviting you to get involved by suggesting types of recordings you’d like to see them produce and share via SoundCloud:
What subjects would you most interested in? Maybe arts, science or economics? Prefer lectures or five-minute clips? Share your ideas and thoughts with UCL and post a comment after clicking the link below:
Kudos to UCL for the idea to involve the community for selecting the types of educational recordings they should share. We like!
SoundCloud Voices
SoundCloud Voices is a weekly Community feature focusing on new spoken word creators found on SoundCloud. It might be a podcast, radio show, audio book, interview, audio messages, a poem, anything! Keep an eye out every Thursday for a new post.
The spoken word theme this week is one of a comical nature! There are more and more funny people signing up for SoundCloud of late, here’s a selection.
First up is Richard Herring, who has been in the comedy and podcasting game for many a year. He has started using the SoundCloud iPhone app to record his daily blog, which he has been writing since 2002. So now there’s no need to read it! Seriously tho, his blog can be found here
Next up is author Danny Wallace, who has written the likes of Yes Man, Join Me and Friends Like These. He’s been recording bits of audio using the iPhone app and also uploading snippets from his latest book Awkward Situations for Men. Here’s the latest chapter.
Next up is Richard Herring’s fellow podcaster on the brilliant As it Occurs to Me pod, Dan Tetsell. Take a listen to Dan’s pre live podcast recording chat.
And finally, one more UK comedian and another podcaster (The Gentleman’s Review) is Mr Martin Wolfenden, who also has been using SoundCloud of late to record random ramblings, chat and other types of spoken word related goodness.
There you have it ladies and gents, another week of voices on SoundCloud. We want to hear more comedy!
If you are interested in trying out SoundCloud as a spoken word podcast platform we are currently running a beta program which you can sign up for via this form. Successful candidates will be emailed with further details.
To my most beloved website:
Is there a way to hide the play count on our main SC page? I know how to hide it on the embeddable player, but I was wondering if it's possible to do it on the main site.
Thanks a bunch! I love you!
Oh hi!
Yes, you can hide stats with our Premium plans starting with the Solo account upwards:
Trippiest busker
I don’t have a photo to describe this sound, because quite frankly I’ve never been able to see exactly where it’s coming from (except for one time…but I think I got lucky)! It just appears every once in a while around University of Toronto (usually in the summer, but one time I heard it in February and was totally freaked out), and totally changes my walk home. If you can find me a trippier busker, I’d love to hear it.
So, happy Wednesday! Here is a sound you can totally space out to. What instrument is this even?! Anyone?
Maybe I should start a busker series? They seem to be a neighbourhood staple, and I’m sure there are hundreds of different ones around the city (there are a bajillion in the Annex). And BuskerFest happens every year, too! Can I get a yay/nay?! I’d definitely love to hear what buskers frequent your neighbourhood/you found on an adventure.
Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
Bombay Bicycle Club | Shuffle
Over here, the Community team’s pretty close to define summer by using this song.
Extra bonus for photo replies, what do you think?
Remixes/Contests/Submissions...
This week on Remixes/Contests/Submissions…
Mozart [un]RAPPED has finally launched! Partnered with with Shure, RJDJ, us here at Soundcloud and the Aurora Orchestra, it’s aim is to celebrate musical convergence and culture where live recordings of the Aurora Orchestra playing Mozart are chopped, looped and replayed to sound like contemporary genres.
We are looking for the most talented mash-uppers out there. Enter the freestyling competition by getting the RJDJ app on your iPhone/Android mobile or use the purpose built online widget to leave your mark on Mozart!
This unique project not only wants to promote musical experimentation with different styles, but also wants to mix different audiences through alternative methods. By using mobile and web platforms from RJDJ and Soundcloud, the highest levels of creativity are encouraged which in turn will showcase the condition of a changingyouth through the medium of music conception.
Watch the video above before heading here to check out the contest.
Just a quick heads up for the DJ/Producer community on a Tuesday afternoon – Global Gathering, the international dance music festival, has teamed up with Pioneer and DV247 to run a competition, hosted by ourselves!
Entry is simple, any and all producers can upload their original productions to the relevant Global Gathering PodCast Competition page to be in with the chance of having their track selected (by Global Gathering Facebook fans) for one of three live podcasts direct from the event itself in July! Once Global Gathering is over, the three tracks will be judged by a panel of industry experts, and the best one will receive a whole heap of exciting prizes which you can check out here.
Carl Cox and Safehouse Management have announced the stellar line-up for Carl’s 10th anniversary celebration of the Carl Cox Revolution at Space Ibiza where Rotterdam’s own Michel de Hey will perform at the Opening Party alongside Carl Cox who will do a 10 hour marathon set! Alongside this, Hey is giving you the chance to remix his track ‘Curly Wurly’ to be in with a chance of winning a release on his own label HEY!, a years SoundCloud Pro account and a 3 months Headliner.fm Pro Account!
Click here for more information on the contest and to get your entry in!
Dutch Uncles are pleased to announce their brand new X-O remix competition.
Simply download the stems from the contest page and then drop your finished mix into the SoundCloud Dropbo. All mixed will then posted to the Dutch Uncles social media sites for fans to listen to and provide feedback on. The band will make the final decision on the winner but they will also take fan feedback and number of plays into consideration.
Prizes consist of a guestlist pass for a festival of your choice that the band are playing at over the summer, a Dutch Uncles goodie pack and more!
Finally this week we have the Voice Hands Machine remix contest.
Remix the track ‘Take Your Hand’ by Voice Hands Machine to have your creation released on the Voice Hands Machine Remixes EP, alongside with dj Kodh, Tommy Kid, Z Reach (the Cheerz), have access to worldwide digital distribution and promotion, on ITunes, Beatport and digital download sites and also have your remix added into a weekly podcast during the summer!
Click here to head over to the contest!
…Interested in setting up your own remix contest or submissions feature on SoundCloud? Click here to find out how!
Jordan Reyne, Evil Celtic Songstress
Altered Realities Radio (a horror radio show) interviewed SoundCloud Local: Auckland alumni, Jordan Reyne, this month! If you remember, Jordan is a folklore, sonic landscape songstress, who actually has a new album set to release over the summer. So you know what that means: keep an eye on her SoundCloud page for updates.
You can catch more interviews with Jordan on her label’s SoundCloud page too: soundcloud.com/factorynation
[I invite you to name this piano/orchestral piece]
Neat Idea Of The Day: piano artist Oliver Sadie is asking his followers to suggest a title for his latest piece
Wanna help out? Leave comment here: http://snd.sc/mstIPN
Are you guys at all affiliated with other music sharing sites such as Beatport? Also, just because the names are sort of similar: are you guys and grooveshark at all affiliated? Sorry for all these business questions, just curious.
Brb, just checking on the similarity between a shark and a cloud…
Do you guys ever plan to partner up with Microsoft for Xbox?
You mean these guys?
Sounds from the Lakeshore W.
Sounds from Lakeshore W. - Saturday June 25, 1 pm
So, I guess along the same vein as today’s Found Sounds on SoundCloud, here is a recording of the waves lapping against the barrier just past the bike path on Lakeshore Blvd W, just before Exhibition Place. I took this at the beginning of my epic bike ride this past Saturday. I also took this picture of a duck family at the same place!
Cute, huh?! I think today’s sound is very peaceful (well, as peaceful as the concrete barrier on the Lakeshore can be…) So I hope you enjoy it, and take your moment of Zen. And be sure to check out the Found Sounds for more (better) wave recordings.
I hope you all have a good night! I’m off to cook a chicken…
Beach Waves 3
Today was a busy day. You know what I’m doing now? Sitting back, relaxing with a six-minute recording of waves.
Yes, waves.
It’s as if you were there.
There’s more here.
